Cats' brotherhood

This concept also comes from Layhausen and it refers to the formal hierarchy, by which cats rule themselves in a predetermined zing. Young cats enjoy until a determined age of a kind of term on this fraternity. They are accepted or moreover brought to the center of this structure, but without involving them in any fight. They give them time to get used to the inconvenient of cats life.

When my domestic cat Morellino broke into this Italian community with only a year of age, I could observe the following behavior. The Italian cats, some five of them, had gathered around the house at sunset, and Morellino approached them one by one, with a playful clumsiness, I thought. They let him be, they kindly smiled, they smelled him and they took at him "en force". In any case, he took three days in coming back, and when it did it had a radiant aspect, well fed and without a hair out of its place. A year later, Morellino went back to that area, as an adult and castrated cat, the results were clearly different. In this occasion it had to do with the neighbor's cat, a tiger like young cat who was the champion. The rest of cats did not dare to get near him, less to try to make their old rights over the area be understood. Then came Morellino, communicative by nature who approached Pucci. They stubbed their noses, and then Pucci left, urinated on the nearest flower pot and then made its way to the center of the plaza. Thus, establishing that Morellino was no rival for him.